The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years.

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The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

Summary: LoopFuse has launched a free entry-level version of its marketing automation system. It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. LoopFuse today promised to “transform” the marketing automation industry by offering a free version of its system. LoopFuse knows that, of course.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. The vendor argues that this removes a critical roadblock for many marketers, who have trouble building such workflows on their own.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. Sales Insight.

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Lead Liaison

JULY 9, 2021

Check out the powerful new enhancements on Lead Liaison’s Sales & Marketing Lead Management platform. As always, please feel free to contact your Lead Liaison Representative with any questions about the enhancements below. The post Enhancement Round-Up Q2 2021 appeared first on Lead Liaison.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 17, 2009

Summary: Right On Interactive's 5Buckets connects lists from external customer management systems with many types of output vendors (email, print, fax, text message, automated voice). Now is a good time to remedy that. 5Buckets isn’t actually a demand generation system, at least according to my usual definition.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 12, 2010

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. Users can drill into the details of each account, including Web activities, emails and score history. -

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Can you provide an example of an “account engagement score”? Sales Empowerment.

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The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

Recent studies tell us while the adoption of marketing automation technology continues to gain momentum, fewer than 20 percent of marketing executives say that they are fully integrating the technology into their current sales and marketing initiatives.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Marketers frequently need to review and choose new tools to help improve or streamline their marketing programs. This can be time consuming and may lead to many dead ends. Because of this, some marketers make the wrong choice because they just pick software based on a salesperson’s promise or friend’s suggestion.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This was my fourth Dreamforce, and I’d like to offer some observations from the perspective of someone who lives in the B2B marketing & sales space. Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. Observation 2: Marketing Automation is Alive & Well.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

It shows how specialized software can be much better at one function than general purpose systems. The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Placing them all in the same product adds cost and complexity, which are not a software developer’s friends. Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The product was soon extended to integrate with Salesforce.com and to let the proxy server add Genius-generated popups that display personalized messages or offer an online chat. Later, the company added MarketingGenius, which lets marketers send email on behalf of salespeople and can react to Salesforce.com workflow rules.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing. This simplifies the system in two ways: marketers have fewer features to learn, and they can reuse their work across many functions. I guess that’s true, but doubt it’s important to most marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing Thought Leader interview series is with David Taber. David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. Q: What's the biggest issue with Lead Generation ?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company. The conversation has sharpened my own thinking on the subject and prompted a couple of conversations with vendors. I think it’s worth discussing here in some detail.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 1, 2009

But it turns out that DemandBase has been inching its way up the value chain. It can also import a client’s list of target accounts from Salesforce.com and issuing alerts when those companies visit. DemandBase said they hadn’t made a formal study of the quality of those leads, but felt confident they were more than worth the cost.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Summary: LeadPAC lets marketers pay for email responses as easily as they pay for search responses. It’s a major improvement over traditional lead generation. I can’t recall a vendor with the same business model as LeadPAC from marketing automation vendor True Influence.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2009

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. The system is a little above-average in that emails can contain if/then rules to display different images based on differences in lead data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2009

This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem. This means new products reflect the lessons each vendor has drawn from the industry’s history to date. For example: - emails and Web forms can be personalized with lead data, but don’t incorporate rule-selected content blocks. -

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LeadSloth

JULY 12, 2010

UPDATED REVIEW: My earlier review of HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing software was more than 1 year old and the software has evolved a lot: time for an update! Marketing departments at mid-size companies. Both groups will use HubSpot to generate more inbound leads, but they have vastly different requirements.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

That is what we as marketers try to do with marketing automation—make the process of marketing more efficient, long-lasting, and available. Most of us, like Edison, are dabbling in the great unknown with trials and errors when it comes to marketing automation. Along the way it can get frustrating.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 28, 2011

Your definitions of quality leads differed from ours. We weren’t on the same page when it came to target marketing and reaching your desired sales-ready leads. Your view of our company’s value proposition was different from what we were promoting! You guys only knew the basics of Salesforce.com.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 28, 2011

Your definitions of quality leads differed from ours. We weren’t on the same page when it came to target marketing and reaching your desired sales-ready leads. Your view of our company’s value proposition was different from what we were promoting! You guys only knew the basics of Salesforce.com.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

For many product and service companies, it is an evolution. It starts with defining product-market fit. Then we have to hire and scale sales and marketing pipeline to acquire new customers. And it culminates in servicing and retaining existing customers to maximize profit. For me it was mainly a data management tool.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s no secret that I am a fervent evangelist for marketing automation, and at our agency we see the real-life benefits every day in the form of clients generating higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and shorter sales cycles. Today, lead management in the CRM system starts when sales get the lead.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Where marketing is going. Our comprehensive solution includes great email capabilities, but goes much deeper to include enterprise-class marketing automation, social marketing, marketing financial management, and revenue cycle analytics.

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Biznology

JANUARY 23, 2013

plus numerous databases and online data enhancement services to choose from. Internal databases populated from billing systems, lead management systems, and website registration systems. LevelEleven provides a cloud-based platform where sales managers can create fresh and compelling sales contests within Salesforce.com.

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